Plastic Surgery

The Department of Plastic Surgery of the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University was established in 1975, taking the lead in being established in the province. It is one of the relatively early-established specialty departments of plastic and aesthetic surgery in China. In 1992, it was selected as a key discipline among the first cohort of Grade III Class A hospitals nationwide and was one of the first doctoral programs in plastic surgery in Anhui Province. In 1994, with the approval of the former State Education Commission, it obtained authorization to confer master’s degrees. At that time, it was the only professional master’s program in plastic surgery among the six provinces of East China. It began enrolling master’s degree graduate students in 1995. In 1996, it was selected by the Anhui Provincial Department of Health as one of the first batch of “Key Clinical Medical Disciplines of Anhui Province.” In 2001, it was again designated a provincial key discipline. It is the only key discipline specializing in plastic surgery in the province. In the “Specialty Reputation Ranking (Fudan version),” it ranks among the top ten in East China and first in Anhui Province.

The discipline currently has 26 medical and nursing staff, including 5 professors (chief physicians) and 3 associate professors (deputy chief physicians); 10 hold doctoral degrees and 7 hold master’s degrees. The discipline has 3 national committee members of the Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery branches of the Chinese Medical Association and the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, as well as 3 chairpersons or vice-chairpersons of provincial specialty societies. It currently has 2 doctoral supervisors and 4 master’s supervisors.

Key Technologies

The department’s level of scar prevention and treatment, wound repair, and reconstruction and restoration of organs such as the ear, nose, breast, vagina, and penis is among the leading levels nationwide. Its distinctive technologies include “comprehensive scar prevention and treatment,” “the use of expanded skin flaps and perforator flaps to repair refractory defects and wounds,” “standardized treatment of body-surface tumors,” “microsurgical recanalization of the fallopian tubes,” “autologous fat injection for facial rejuvenation,” “endoscopic dual-plane breast augmentation,” “reduction mammoplasty for macromastia,” “revision after cosmetic surgery of the eyes, nose, and other areas,” “light- and energy-based skin aesthetic treatments,” and “abdominoplasty combined with liposuction.” Over the past more than ten years, keeping pace with the needs of contemporary development, the department has actively carried out various medical aesthetic surgical and nonsurgical procedures and introduced more than 10 of the latest light- and energy-based medical aesthetic devices, enabling it to meet a wide range of plastic and aesthetic needs.

Department Honors

The department undertakes 3 General Program projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and numerous provincial- and ministerial-level projects. It has published more than 100 academic papers, including more than 40 SCI papers, and has received multiple Ministry of Education Medical Science and Technology Awards and Anhui Science and Technology Progress Awards, including 3 second prizes.